In 2021, 24 Latino leaders from the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, will start a year of intensive leadership formation. Latinos are underrepresented in church leadership, despite being more than one-third of Catholics in the U.S.
It was a day to thank God for sending more laborers to gather his harvest, Diocese of Charlotte leaders said as they blessed and formally opened St. Joseph College Seminary.
"We would like any man who wants to be included in the physical defense of the parish to be present to discuss and go over tactics for possible situations at St. Stanislaus that would require the use of firearms," wrote the pastor in an email.
